Here's something I've never understood.
The bride and I were in NYC for Hurricane Sandy. Our host, who lived right off Columbus Circle, insisted we get a decent lunch (at Jean-George) before it hit. As we were headed there, I noticed a crane at, what I guessed was the 80-90th floor of a building under construction.
How TF was that going to survive the upcoming winds, I thought?
Sure enough, the front end of the storm hit while we were lunching, represented by winds where small things were flying by horizontally. As we were leaving, I looked up, and realized the crane was now broken and dangling on the OTHER side. I hoped neither my wife nor our host would notice. No luck. It scared TF out of my wife and, the moment we began to cross Columbus Circle to get back to his apartment, all hell kind of alarms broke loose. Multiple first-responders, all headed for the crane area...which was about 6 blocks over, and 4 blocks down.
We went out immediately afterward to stock up at a nearby grocery store, and by the time we got back, our street was blocked off. We talked our way in, because our host had ID he lived and taught there.
But that led me to wonder...
....Why close off twenty four square blocks, when the triangular grid pattern of the crane couldn't catch enough wind to fly more than a square block?
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Anybody think THAT thing can fly four blocks in the wind?
